ENEMY's music fills me with a mix of wonder and fear. The compositions on this, their debut release as a trio, are fiendishly complex, but they're also exhilarating and infectious. Swedish bassist and producer Petter Eldh (a disciple of Django Bates) favours backbeat-riddled grooves, brain-scrambling rhythmic games and sudden switches of feel, from storming minimalist rock to hazy halftime hip hop. Prolific pianist Kit Downes writes jigsaw puzzle melodies and tangles of cryptic counterpoint. James Maddren, a lynchpin of the UK scene, nails all of it, playing with fearsome energy and reacting at lightspeed. A quartet of guests broaden the sound palette. Ruth Goller adds electric bass murmurs to the fragmentary ‘Race The Sun’, cellist Lucy Railton tangles with a contrary number called ‘Jinn’, guitarist Chris Montague plays cat and mouse with Downes on the intractable ‘Politix’, and Lewis Wright's luminous vibes pulse through ‘Brandy’. Edlh has added further colour in the studio, highlighting melodies and grooves with curious, ultra-synthetic sounds and occasionally brainwashing instruments (Downes' piano, Montague's guitar) and whisking them off into the twilight zone. I'm on my fifth listen and I'm still finding fascinating details. This is a formidable release from three musicians at the top of their game.